References

The following references are a very small sample of papers that relate to biotensegrity. They have been grouped together for convenience but in many cases their content stretches across several categories. Many are available for free download while others require a subscription to the journal or single item payment. Inevitably things change and some of the links may no longer work, but an internet search for the title will find it.

Jauregui VG. Tensegrity structures and their application to architecture. link

Kenner H. 2003 Geodesic Math and how to use it. University of California Press.

Knight B, Zhang Y, Duffy J and Crane C. 2000 On the line geometry of a class of tensegrity structures. Proceedings of a symposium commemorating the legacy, works and life of Sir Robert Stawell Ball upon the 100th anniversary of a treatise on the theory of screws. University of Cambridge. link

Borkhvardt VG. 2000 The growth and form development of the limb buds in vertebrate animals. Ontogenez 31:192-200. (This is in Russian but the abstract looks like it could be useful to tensegrity research – please let me know if you find a translation.)

Denton MJ, Marshall CJ and Legge M. 2002 The protein folds as platonic forms: new support for the pre-Darwinian conception of evolution by natural law. Journal of Theoretical Biology 219:325-342.

Denton MJ, Dearden PK and Sowerby SJ. 2003 Physical law not natural selection as the major determinant of biological complexity in the subcellular realm: new support for the pre-Darwinian conception of evolution by natural law. BioSystems 71:297-303.

Keef T, Twarock R. 2005 A new series of polyhedra as blueprints for viral capsids in the family of Papovaviridae. link

Kreigh M and Kreigh J. 2003 Growth, form and proportion in nature: lessons for human habitation in off planet environments. 33rd International Conference on Environmental Systems, Vancouver Canada.

Levin SM. 1986 The icosahedron as the three-dimensional finite element in biomechanical support. Proceedings of the Society of General System Research Symposium on Mental Images, Values and Reality pp G14-G26. Philadelphia.

Teo BK and Zhang H. 1991 Clusters of clusters: Self-organization and self-similarity in the intermediate stages of cluster growth of Au-Ag supraclusters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 88:5067-5071. link